“There Will Come Soft Rains” is one of the few pieces of fiction that can still give me a category 5 case of disturbed unsettlement. This video comes pretty damn close. Thanks Sterling! Yeesh…
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I wonder if those guys were aware of this?
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I used to joke that the SRL/Make Magazine crowd would rule the Earth after World War III, but after seeing this radio controlled missile transport and launcher in action I’m not going to joke about them anymore.
Obviously they need to hook up with this guy who built a radio controlled B-52.
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The only thing missing is a radio controlled Slim Pickens whooping it up. Of course, if a scale WWIII isn’t your cup of tea you can try your hand at recreating Dr. Strangelove using common household objects.
I haven’t looked into the emulation / 8-bit world for a long time… Most of my gaming time has been limited to short runs of MAME OS X (finally a universal version!) and that’s about it. I don’t understand how I’ve missed M.U.G.E.N all these years. It does for 2d fighting what GURPS did for RPGs: provide a common set of parameters so that characters from different games can compete against each other.
What does this mean? It means you can finally see what happens when Godzilla meets the Mario Brothers.
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Irritating side effect of Web 2.1 tech developments: I’m using “quartzcity” (or some variation) everywhere as my online name, so now whenever something new shows up on the web I’m obliged to immediately register to prevent someone else from grabbing it as a user name.
I suppose I should be posting this to Twitter, but Jaiku is superior in every way.
The Optimus Mini Three looks kinda cool - a three button keyboard with tiny organic LCD screens as the buttons. Sure it’s gimmicky, but it, er, pushes all the correct nerd buttons.
If I had one though (and this is completely contingent about there being Mac drivers for it - which don’t exist yet), I’d program it to display a random selection of display graphics from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I always dug those screens in the background that displayed cryptic status reports for “ATM” or “NAV.”
I believe I’ve said this before but the best way to fight spam, whether it’s email spam, comment spam, or trackback spam, is to shut down your server for a couple days. Take that!
I live in text editors and this screenshot of 18 different monospaced fonts is a terrific guide.
I have a couple of forms that use PHP’s mail command and over the weekend I had to become an expert at protecting yourself from “email injection” spam attacks that insert spam addresses and headers into PHP forms.
After a couple of different strategies I found that the best method to protect yourself was the script from anton at basehost dot net on this page. The nice thing about it is that it’s a server-wide solution - no need to scuzz up your forms with increasingly complicated checks for malformed characters.
I know I’m legitimately a warm weather dork because any time I’ve been confronted with a radiator I’ve incorrectly believed that doing something with the radiator valve will affect the temperature.
Part of me is still boggled that a major city is heating itself with 100 year old technology, but I suppose if it still works… Anyway, Dead Programmer and Gary The Cat give you the lowdown.
I was looking forward to the day when I could hookup my DirecTivo box again, but now that TiVo has committed seppukku it’s going in the trash.
Hello MythTv!
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